
Besides being used for collecting essence, when used against “living” enemies the Dream Nail reveals dialogue as well as fills your Soul meter.Normal enemies will drop one essence as a rare drop on death (chance is on the order of a few percent).Spirits immediately give one essence each upon striking them with the Dream Nail.Dream Bosses are harder variants of previously beaten bosses which upon completion reward 300-400 essence.Warrior’s Graves are mini-boss fights which upon completion reward 100-250 essence.Whispering Roots will release red orbs into their respective rooms with each orb giving one essence up to a total of 18-51 essence per root when all the red orbs are collected.There are four different ways of acquiring essence in the game, which will be elaborated on in their separate sections later in the guide: Collecting the item gives the Dream Nail. Interacting with the spirit here will give some dialogue and cause an item to spawn after it disappears.

Follow the spirit via the platforms and after a little bit the moth spirit will stop at a platform with a moth statue. After waiting about 8 seconds, a moth spirit will spawn and fly away, revealing some platforms. After blacking out, you will wake up in the Dream realm with no visible way out. Interacting with the plaque on the platform gives an explanation of the Dreamers, after which you will get some dialogue from the Dreamers themselves. Once on it, you will be locked in by a white bubble. Once you reach the Resting Grounds for the first time, simply find the platform with the statues of the three Dreamers and walk onto it: Go into the passage at top of the station and look for a passage leading to the left in the top half of the new room.

> Climb up the broken elevator shaft to enter the City of Tears and head right until you enter King’s Station. (Note: You could also use the Deepnest Ancient Basin tram after finding the Tram Pass and climb up to the City, but if you have the Tram Pass you can just take the Crossroads Resting Grounds tram as mentioned above.) City of Tears Resting Grounds elevator: The elevator is located in the right half of the City of Tears, so access to it requires entering the Royal Waterways with a Simple Key and beating Dung Defender.> Once you have the Tram Pass, the tram is located on the right side of the Crossroads just above the Gruz Mother boss room. Forgotten Crossroads Resting Grounds tram: Accessing the tram requires finding the Tram Pass in the Failed Tramway (middle and top part of Deepnest).

Alternatively, if you are playing in Normal Mode you can die and use your shade to nail bounce up to the secret passage. > Use Mantis Claw to climb up the outside of the right wall of the room where you fought the Gruz Mother and super dash across the room from near the ceiling. finding the Crystal Heart in Crystal Peak).
